Accessibility

1. Accessibility policy

Gijón City Council web site is committed with Web site accessibility. To reach this goal, it follows standard technologies established by the W3C and the AAWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The City Council of Gijón aims at creating a portal for each and every citizen so that no disability would become discrimination in the use of the portal.

2. Accessible web site

The Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification, AENOR, CTIC Foundation and the European Software Institute, certify the accessibility of the Web site of Gijón. This certificate implies the commitment of continuing being accessible. So, the Web site of Gijón becomes one of the first web pages of the region to get the AA accessibility level.AENOR certificate

is included in the accessibility certificate system following the UNE 139803:2004 standard: applications for disabled people. Web contents accessibility requirements. The aforementioned rule is based on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines, which offices in Spain are in CTIC Foundation, located in the "Parque Científico y Tecnológico" of Gijón (Science & Tecnology Park).

The GIS application: street directory of Gijón is not included in this certification

2.1. Use of standards

Adobe Acrobat Reader DownloadThe Web of the City Council publishes its documents in standard PDF. Get the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, this is a free programme that enables users to view PDF documents.

3. Shortcuts

A set of shortcuts to accede the general information sections, in which the portal is organised, has been programmed in order to use the Web site of the City Council of Gijón in an accessible manner. This allocation tries to mirror the Web site design accurately. These are the Shortcuts:

0. Accessible page

1. Homepage

2. Sitemap

3. Citizens

4. Economy

5. The City

6. The City Council

7. News

8. Agenda

9. Help us to improve

Depending on the web browser used, the combination of keys is as follows:

Shortcut + Enter for IE 4.0

Alt + shift + shortcut for Mozilla and Netscape

Alt +Shortcut + Enter for IE 5 and subsequent browsers

Shift + ESC to enable shortcuts for Opera

Ctrl + shortcut may be used in Mac OS-systems.

4. Keys predefined by Windows

Windows offers a predefined sequence of different key combinations that enable a simple handling of windows menus and standard actions. The combinations are as follows: